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�SHARED CULTURE FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY – NEXT STEPS?�

ICS Workshop n°6

ICS Workshop 5

18-19-10-2023

Gabriele Mraz

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme 2014-2018 under grant agreement N°847593

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FROM SAFETY CULTURE TO A SHARED CULTURE FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY

At the beginning of EURAD, civil society actors defined safety culture as a very important topic, especially in connection with uncertainty management – we worked on it through the five years.
A short review on the shift from safety culture to a shared culture for safety and security:

Beyond the limits of nuclear organisations: �shared elements between corporal & societal cultures
Based on work of the Sitex projects

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Security

SITEX PROJECT: ENLARGED CULTURE FOR SAFETY

2015-2017 Sitex II project, project partners were TSO, regulators and CS
One objective: investigate how safety culture can be shared by different actors
Workshops and interviews with members of NGOs and TSO
Publication D4.1 available here: http://sitexproject.eu/index_2.html#deliverables (or via FANC or NTW if the link is not working)
Borrowed slide from Maryna Surkova’s ppt �in the last ICS workshop in Dec. 2023 –�identify a common denominator

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UPDATE AND FOLLOW-UPS NEEDED

Reflect upon changes in organisational and societal cultures and in the understanding of safety – the project workshops were 8 years ago, f.e. have definitions of safety changed
Recent challenges: SMR, extensive life-time extension of NPP, upcoming DGRs…
Explicit inclusion of security (war, terror – new risks need new approaches)
Debates in EURAD on underlying principles: precautionary principle versus optimisation principle?
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ICS workshop no. 5

18-19-10-2023